Return-path: Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.146.178]:39551 "EHLO wa-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753055AbYLLWke convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:40:34 -0500 Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id v27so797676wah.21 for ; Fri, 12 Dec 2008 14:40:33 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <69e28c910812121440j6e010ac0j6e08cd6a53f58bcb@mail.gmail.com> (sfid-20081212_234038_830004_C1D87925) Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 23:40:33 +0100 From: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Stefanik_G=E1bor?=" To: "Johannes Berg" Subject: Re: [RFC 0/3] cfg80211, mac80211: Introduce radiotap flags for finer userspace control of injection Cc: "John W. Linville" , linux-wireless In-Reply-To: <1229121467.3565.2.camel@johannes.berg> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 References: <69e28c910812121432k1e8732bcma77e489d247ecdf4@mail.gmail.com> <1229121467.3565.2.camel@johannes.berg> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 11:37 PM, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Fri, 2008-12-12 at 23:32 +0100, Stefanik G=E1bor wrote: >> Userspace packet injector applications might want to transmit packet= s >> that are, by design, not supposed to be acked. In other cases, an >> injector application may need to control the sequence number of the >> packets it transmits. Introduce 2 new flags in the "TX flags" Radiot= ap >> fields, controlling these 2 behaviors. >> >> The new fields are as follows: >> >> * IEEE80211_RADIOTAP_TX_FLAGS >> >> IEEE80211_RADIOTAP_F_TX_NO_ACK: Transmit the packet once with no = waiting for >> an ACK and no retrying if no ACK re= ceived >> IEEE80211_RADIOTAP_F_TX_NO_SEQ: Use the sequence number already p= resent in >> the 802.11 header, do not generate = a new one >> in the driver/stack. Useful when in= jecting >> fragments with the same sequence nu= mber. > > Umm, these aren't really defined by radiotap yet. Does all of this ha= ve > to be NOW? > > johannes > No, that's why I submitted it as an RFC. By the way, what is the preferred method of contacting the Radiotap staff now that the mailing list seems to be permanently down? --G=E1bor --=20 Vista: [V]iruses, [I]ntruders, [S]pyware, [T]rojans and [A]dware. :-) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireles= s" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html